[Land-speed] Fuel Injector testing

[23weldon]

Mayf -- 
How about the ethanol you buy at the hardware store for shellac thinner?
Fairly cheap.  And any remainder will be gone as soon as you have a few 
seconds warm up. Besides it's already in the gasoline you get on the street. 
If the low flash point worries you then go pricier with 91% IPA you get in 
the drug store.  Or maybe 70% for most of the testing and a last shot of 91% 
to dissolve what water remains in the hardware.
Seems to me that anything with a safe high flash point is either going to be 
too high in viscosity, too expensive or kinda nasty to use (TCE, etc).
Ed Weldon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drmayf" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat at pahrump.com>
Cc: "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fuel Injector testing


> Well, diesel, while a petroleum product, isn't all that similar.  Has 
> twice the molecular weight, has about 65 to 1 less vapor pressure,  higher 
> density, and about 5 times more viscose etc.   Plus, then I would have to 
> clean the stuff out of everything.   I keep thinking of a refrigerant type 
> fluid, but haven't looked. As to asking, I might do that but the research 
> is a learning process for me and I am always trying to learn rather than 
> just jumping in and implementing. I always learn something even if it is 
> wrong most of the time, lol...
>
> mayf
> Skip Higginbotham wrote:
>
>> Mayf,
>> Why not call one of the fuel injection companies and see what they use? I 
>> think diesel would work. Not so volatile.
>> Skip